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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

Unearthing Paul Auster's Poetry

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 5 2009
James Peacock
Little critical attention has been paid to Paul Auster's poetry. Reviewers of the recent Collected Poems tended to treat the work as an archaeological curiosity, as evidence of a young writer struggling to find the voice which would eventually allow him to write his more commercially and critically successful novels. This article argues for the intrinsic merits of the poems, and explores the ways in which Auster's verse deals with the question of the poet's relationship with the past. The past, these poems show, takes many forms: it includes Auster's literary ancestors, but also the national past and Native American civilisations. [source]

Laying the Moral Foundations: Writer, Religion and Late Eighteenth-Century Society , The Case of J.M.R Lenz

GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 2 2001
J.M. Gibbons
Although Lenz himself calls Meinungen eines Laien, and by implication its complement Stimmen des Laien, ,der Grundstein meiner ganzen Poesie', until recently these moral-philosophical texts have attracted little critical attention and as yet no detailed analysis. An examination of the involved theological argument developed in the latter work seeks to demonstrate that they do indeed amount to a watershed in Lenz's career. It also opens up an intriguing perspective into the changing role of the writer in later eighteenth-century society. In engaging seriously in a number of debates critical to the ,Aufklärung', Lenz also distinguishes himself from the ,Sturm und Drang' movement with which he has traditionally been associated. By laying a ,Grundstein' of faith Lenz brings his notion of the individual's duty and purpose in society, his ,Bestimmung' as explored in earlier texts, to a firm conclusion. He also articulates his own sense of , to extend the term ,,Selbstbestim-mung', in which his own role as a writer undergoes a shift away from the spheres of philosophy, theology and literature towards more concrete social and political concerns. [source]

DISCIPLINING THE PROFESSIONAL: THE CASE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT*

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 6 2002
DAMIAN HODGSON
Despite its rapid growth in recent years, Project Management has received very little critical attention, particularly when compared to the more ,hyped' managerial fashions such as TQM (cf. Wilkinson and Willmott, 1995) and BPR (cf. Grey and Mitev, 1995; Grint, 1994). My intention in this paper is to critically examine the ongoing construction of Project Management as a professional discipline in modern organizations. Drawing on an understanding of ,discipline' based in Foucauldian work, I will briefly trace the historical construction of Project Management as a form of managerial knowledge, outlining the key models and techniques which make up contemporary Project Management. Through an empirical study of the articulation and reproduction of Project Management within two Financial Services institutions, the everyday construction of Project Management as an ,objective' and ,abstract' body of knowledge will be described. I then contrast this with the embodied and power-laden operation of Project Management, with disciplinary effects not only on those employees whose work is restructured in line with Project Management principles but equally upon self-professed Project Management professionals themselves. [source]

Ethical investment: whose ethics, which investment?

BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 3 2001
Russell Sparkes
Ethical or socially responsible investment (SRI) is one of the most rapidly growing areas of finance. New government regulations mean that all pension funds are obliged to take such considerations into account. However, this phenomenon has received little critical attention from business ethicists, and a clear conceptual framework is lacking. This paper, by a practitioner in the field, attempts to fill this analytical gap. It considers what difference, if any, lies between the terms ,ethical', ,green', or ,socially responsible'. It also tackles the difficult question of how any public form of investment can be called ,ethical' in an overtly pluralistic society. The paper provides an account of the historical development of ethical investment, and traces the evolution of the varying terms used to describe it. This is followed by a conceptual analysis of these terms, and a description of ethical decision-making in this context. The paper ends by considering the role of shareholder action within ethical investment, and assesses the utility of the stakeholder model as a theoretical justification. [source]